G'day Melb.pm,
Tomorrow is a our Perl 5.12 bug triage.
6:30pm, Wednesday 11th November (TOMORROW)
Remasys Pty Ltd
Level 1
172 Flinders St
(just opposite Federation Square)
Map: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6sa7l8
This is a reminder that I'm co-opting you all to help triage bugs in
preparation for the release of Perl 5.12. To save time on the night,
there's a few things I want to cover with you now.
Preparation:
* Laptops. Bring 'em. It will be hard to triage bugs without them.
* Bitcard accounts. If you're already a CPAN author, you have one of
these. If not, go to https://www.bitcard.org/ and get one.
* Perl. Preferably the latest stable release you can get. We can
close a number of bugs on old releases of Perl if they're no longer
issues on new releases.
Our first target will be bugs on the Overview list:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html
These are (roughly) all the tickets that have hit the bug queue but have not
yet been looked at by a human.
Our criteria for 5.12 show-stoppers are ANY of the following:
* Anything with no work-around.
* Anything that crashes Perl.
* Anything that gives a wrong answer.
* Anything security relevant.
* Anything that's "easy" to fix.
However we'll also be trying to sort out any other bugs that we can. There
are some meta-tickets that we'll be using for that task, and I'll go through
their use on the night.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Paul
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